When most labels don’t keep their own schedules kicking out new designs, they either rush something out or just quietly sweep it under the carpet. But Ten Bills have turned their personal disappointment into consumer coolness. From their mailout:

We have been promising new t-shirts and it has been so long since we last spoke. We miss you lots and have been thinking about you like pretty much all the time. Everything we see reminds us about you. So we just had to get in touch just to say hi and let you know that we are going to have new t-shirts REEEEALLL soon. We are working real hard and anxiously waiting as well.

Here is a coupon code that you can use until then: FREETEEWITHTHREE (it will get you a free t-shirt if you buy 3. just add 4 to your stash and use the code). Please head over to www.tenbills.com

You can’t really go wrong with four tees for $30 now can you?

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Top quality independent clothing from the UK, boy does it make me feel proud to see Brits doing something great in an industry where I usually see the American side. EIO Clothing are a seriously hot label too, they’re worn by people like Pete Doherty (I feel dirty just writing that), Lady Sovereign, Sugababes, Jamie Callum, CSS, New Young Pony Club, the Klaxons and Andrew Bowness (wink). I know that just because a celebrity wears something doesn’t make it cool, but come on, that’s a pretty cool list, especially the guy at the end of it!

Their latest range, code-named “Till death Do Us Party,” dropped today (October 15th) and is filled with “bright, bold garments and Electro prints with washed out, burnt out and distressed finishing techniques.” That’s certainly true of the majority of the range, although my sample isn’t quite as nu-rave as some garment. The design is a really interesting take on the traditional crest, I’m not going to claim to understand if there’s any deeper meaning behind the design, but the illustration is absolutely beautiful.

Quality is top notch. The stock tee is by American Apparel. Printing quality feels great considering how large the print is. To distress the tees a little bit they’ve cut the ends of the sleeves and the hem at the bottom of the tee, so presumably the distressed look with increase the more you wear it. It’s a subtle effect, but I think it works quite well. I don’t usually mention packaging (usually because its boring), but my tee came in a really cool screenprinted envelope that you can see in the expandable thumbnails at the bottom.

Costiness=£26 Link (As this article was written before I went to France, the tee wasn’t in their shop yet, so I will update this link at the first opportunity I get)

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Tags » black • butterfly • crest • eio • eio clothing • monochrome • review • UK • white

Here’s one for the argyle lovers over at Fantastic Bonanza! I’ve always found the idea of printing argyle to be pretty funny, I guess it’s kind of like when people print stitches onto a tee.

Costiness=$64.97 Link

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Yeah, I wrote this post earlier in the week and posted it today just because I thought it would be cool to have a tee called ‘Friday I’m in Love’ posted on a Friday.

ErrOr Designs have an astoundingly good range of tees, some designed in-house, some, like this one, designed by other brands. I can’t believe I’ve left a website of such quality ‘bookmarked and not posted’ for months, but better late than never right. Check them out. Now.

Oh, and does this tee design remind anyone else of this tee by GoApe Shirts, I’m not saying there’s anything untoward going on since it’s just a similar style and colourway, they just remind me of each other.

Costiness=$20 Link

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I’m going to France for work again (driving the 1000 mile journey in a slow van that doesn’t have a/c as you read this post). It’s only for a couple of weeks this time meaning I should be back before the end of the month, unless something unforeseen happens and we need to stay for longer. I’ve also been told that the internet isn’t working at the house I’m working at, so I probably won’t be able to write posts there, or answers e-mails.

I’ve written some posts that will automatically be posted, but I won’t be keeping up the rather energetic posting schedule that I’ve managed to maintain over the past few weeks. You also won’t be getting my usual critique on recommendations, since I wrote them in a bit of a rush.

So, just to be clear, don’t expect to get a reply to an e-mail or comment for the next couple of weeks.

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When I think of P is for Panda, I think of big, bright, cute graphics. But they’ve also got a bit of a penchant for more artsy looking designs, like this one that arrived in my samples package. This tee is available in a very limited run of 36, so at most there’s only 35 of these bad boys left available.

It’s a cool design. Its not exactly an attention grabber, y’know? You’ll walk into a bar wearing it and people will recognise that you’re wearing a cool tee, but I don’t think people will go “mate, that tee is amazin’!” Although perhaps they might if you’ve been in the bar for more than a few hours and you attempt Andy-esque feats of birthday-drinking endurance. The style interests me too, for no reason at all it makes me feel as if there is a slightly old-school Japanese mood going on here, which is probably just because of the colourway, anyone else feel that?

In terms of quality. PifP are continuing to rock the American Apparel stock tees, so we know what we’re getting there, and the print feels really good too, even better than the last PifP tee that I reviewed, which makes no sense, but I was impressed last time, no I’m even more impressed now!

Costiness=$25 Link (also available as a print/tee+print combo)

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A beautiful design, with quite a surprisingly thoughtful little message to go with it in the blurb.

‘free the birdcage 1′… as usual the plan seems to be flawed… it’s always flawed. nevermind, the scenery’s nice…

Costiness=£15 Link

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I think that having the model wear a bandana makes this hoodie look like it should only be worn by wannbe gangsters, but I think it deserves a much wider demographic than that, its a solid design with lots of intricate details.

Costiness=$79.99 Link (also available in white)

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Whilst I don’t think that anywhere would be able to beat Tokyo for finding vintage clothing (although I remember some decent places in New York), I thought that the Brits reading HYA would like to be pointed towards another Gridskipper link that might help prevent them trawling around all the charity shops in London trying to find an obscure 70s pop culture reference on a t-shirt… that was actually made in the 70s.

Vintage Clothing Shops in London - Gridskipper

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from their mailout:

OCTOBER SALE
This week, until October 15th, just type the code “0011OCT15″ in the claim coupon area upon checkout from INDVSL.com to receive a 15% discount on any and all purchases!

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